Originally Posted by
Vladimeir
The problem with changing the ratio is that tanks, not just druids, will begin to use agility gear. Not to mention that druids would get a huge buff in mitigation. Along with those two problems, rogues are NOT meant to take on 12 targets at once. Basically, You just said "Rogues cannot take on 12 targets and AOE them down without using cooldowns so make them wear plate and give them increased stam and damage reduction." You mentioned all tank capable classes. All plate wearers. This is not a rogues role.
As for the state of rogues dps in raids, I would have to say that I am confident in Blizzard knowing how all of our stats scale. However, looking at the stats we have now, in particular haste, I see there being an upper bound to how well they scale. I see at one point, our DPS making huge jumps only to level off end expansion. The main reason for this is how haste effects resource regeneration. As it stands now, top rogues are getting close to 20 energy per second in BiS gear. This is not including combat potency procs or the like. At the end of Tier 12, this may be closer to 25-30. Tier 13, 30-40. Eventually, it will be extremely difficult to not be energy capped. At that point, our dps won't scale as well as other classes but before we reach that point, Rogue with limitless energy will be topping the meters.
Speaking of haste, to include other classes, some DPS are already reaching a point where they have to fight with haste caps. Particularly casters. That effectively removes one stat on most of their gear and force them to balance around other secondary stats where rogues are just Agil, Haste, Mastery (assuming hit and expertise capped if relavent to spec.) As we get more Agility, Haste or Mastery, each individual stat starts to provide just a little more DPS and as mentioned, other classes sometimes lose values on all of these stats.
Again, I think blizzard knows where our class is and where it will be as we progress through Cataclysm.
I think our set bonus for Tier 12 is a small patch to bring us up to par before we potentially take over the meters.